hydrae

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The Folklore of Pasta Walter Jon Williams 2010

Talis namque materia est ut una dubitatione succisa innumerabiles aliae uelut hydrae capita succrescant, nec ullus fuerit modus, nisi quis eas uiuacissimo mentis igne coerceat.

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

He became abusive; Abelard was a crawling viper (coluber tortuosus) who had come out of his hole (egressus est de caverna sua), and after the manner of a hydra (in similitudinem hydrae), after having one head cut off at Soissons, had thrown out seven more.

Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

Uncle Paul took out his watch again, and this time their landlady took the hint, and hurried into the kitchen, from which delicious odours soon began to escape, and in the midst of the examination upon the window-sill, where the bright sun lit up the lenses of the microscope, the magnified hydrae, with their buds and wondrous developments, were set aside, to be superseded by the morning meal.

The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise George Manville Fenn 1870

In the old days hydrae came from swamps there was one at the back of every mythical little village…actually the unconscience of the unaware, in our post literate, nuclear family world they reside under little Johnie’s and little Janie’s beds.

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